Filter your transactions by date and category

The button at the start of the Filters row shows the date range, and you change it by clicking. When the date box opens you will see four ready options at the top: This month, Last month, Last 3 months and This year. The range you are after is usually one of them; one click is enough, it applies straight away.

You can also build your own: on the calendar below, click the first day, then the last, and choose Apply. The days between the two are shaded, and the row underneath shows the range you picked in words. If you pick nothing, the default range is the current month, from the 1st to the last day. Your choice is saved in your browser, but sensibly: if you picked one of the presets, it is the preset that is saved, not the dates. Pick This month in September and in October the page shows October instead of staying stuck on September. A custom range built on the calendar is kept as it is. Your wallet, category and type filters are waiting for you next time too.

The date range button is at the start of the Filters row. You pick the filters there, and the transactions are listed below. Just above the table there is a small strip that tells you which filters are on. The date chip is always there: for a whole month it reads "September 2026", otherwise it shows both dates. One exception: while you type in the search box above the table, the search covers all time and the date range stops narrowing the list. The date chip fades meanwhile and reads Searching all time.

The wallet, category and type chips, on the other hand, only appear once you filter. A chip's × clears just that filter; clicking the chip itself, or Edit filters, takes you back up to the real filter bar (on a phone, the funnel icon in the top bar opens the filters). So the strip shows and clears, while the controls stay in one place.

When no transaction matches your filters, the table does not just go blank: a card appears and points you somewhere. If records fall outside your range, it tells you how many: "12 records fall outside the selected dates." At the end of that sentence sits a Show all time link, and below it a Clear all button if a filter is on, or the Add transaction + button if not. When you cannot find a transaction, this is the first place to look.

The real filter bar is up there; on a phone it is in a sheet that slides up from the bottom. From there you can pick a wallet and a category, or narrow the list to income, expense or transfer; if you have an asset wallet, Buy and Sell are in that list too. Click Clear all in the same bar and every filter drops, and the date range goes back to its default too. But there are two shortcuts, and most of the time they are faster.

First: click the Income or Expense card. The card filters by that type, and both the list and the trend chart show only it; click the same card again and the filter lifts. Second: click a slice in the Income Breakdown or Expense Breakdown donut, or a row in the list beside it. Either one narrows the list to that category. If one of the slices is Other, those are the uncategorized transactions. Click the same slice again and your previous selection comes back. Categories are kept apart by type: focusing on an expense category narrows only the expense side, the income donut and the income line stay as they were.

Not every number on the screen obeys the same rule; once you know that, you can tell at a glance which one changes with what.

Total balance is not a period total but a wallet total: the balances of your money wallets are added up, and what comes out is the total of the transactions you have recorded in your wallets (future-dated one-off transactions included, as soon as they are saved). Your asset and debt wallets do not go into this sum; you see them in the Net worth line under the card. Since dates are not part of it, it stays the same whichever period you pick; the wallet filter, on the other hand, changes it directly, and when you pick one wallet only that one goes into the sum. Income, expense and net are period totals: they count what happened in the range you picked. Net is what you get when you take expense away from income: the amount left in your pocket over that period. Transfers between your wallets are not counted in any of these three, because the money only moves from one wallet to another. Purchases and sales on asset wallets stay out for the same reason.

The budget bars do not change with the range above; they always measure the current month. That is deliberate: a budget is a monthly limit, so even while you are looking at the last three months you need to see where you stand in this one. The month being measured is named in the heading. They do change with the wallet filter, though, just like the balance, and they follow the category filter too: focus on an expense category and only its budget stays. Under the Income or Transfer type filter the budget section hides, because budgets are for expenses. The Upcoming payments (14 days) section does not depend on the date range either, always showing the next 14 days; it does follow the wallet and category filters, though, and it is empty while the type is set to Income.

There is also a button that belongs to the table alone: Upcoming, the eye icon next to the Transactions heading. It shows or hides future dated payments and income in the table, but the cards and the charts are not affected. A transaction that disappears from the list has not been dropped from the totals.

The trend chart draws the period you picked as three lines: income, expense and the difference between them, net. Income and expense are filled, net is dashed. The grouping changes by itself with the range you pick: up to two months it is daily, beyond that monthly. So "This month" shows you days and "This year" shows you months, with nothing to set. With the type filter on Transfer the chart draws the transfer volume as a single line; on Buy or Sell there is no money flow to draw, so it shows its empty state.

Above the chart there are three small labels, each with a coloured square: Income, Expense and Net. This is called the legend, and it is not only a key but also a switch: click a label and that line hides, and the label is struck through; click again and it comes back. If you want to look at expense on its own, you can turn income and net off.

When you want to look at your transactions in a spreadsheet or keep a copy, clicking the Download CSV button is enough. What you get depends on the range you picked, but not day by day: if your range sits inside a single calendar month you get the whole month, and if it spans more than one month you get all of your transactions. So with 1 to 15 September selected, the file holds the whole of September.

The file ignores the filters on screen: even with a wallet or category filter on, you get every transaction for that month. Recurring transactions are where the two files part ways. Occurrences that have come due are saved by Pumpynotes as separate, real transactions; future occurrences are generated when you look at that month. When you download a single month, every occurrence that falls in that month is its own row in the file. When you download everything, future occurrences stay out of the file: you get the recurrence's own record and the occurrences that came due and became real transactions.